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Caesarea Maritima

26-36 CE · Israel

The provincial capital preserves an inscription confirming Pontius Pilate's title as prefect.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Caesarea Maritima, 26-36 CE. — AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

How the setting appeared

A harbor, palace, theater, warehouses and military-administrative buildings faced the Mediterranean.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATECIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Sailors, merchants, soldiers, officials, craftspeople and servants populated a cosmopolitan Roman city.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATECIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Harbor trade, taxation, military administration, building and household labor sustained the capital.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATECIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Roman, Jewish and other traditions coexisted unequally. The inscription confirms Pilate, not the Gospel trial narrative.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATECIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Classical regional worlds
Region: West Asia · Israel
Languages and scripts: Latin in the Pilate inscription
Important people: Pontius Pilate, Roman prefect named in the inscription
Events and changes: 26-36 CE: Pontius Pilate served as prefect of Judaea, the office restored in the inscription; 1961 CE: The reused limestone inscription was excavated in Caesarea's Roman theater
Evidence confidence: High for Pilate's inscription and the city; literary sources differ in their portraits of his rule.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATECIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE Dates, place, language, people, events and confidence · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATECIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Source count is transparent, and duplicate URLs count only once.

CIT-CORE-CAESAREA-PILATE

Caesarea Maritima: record evidence guide

https://www.imj.org.il/en/exhibitions/cradle-christianity

imj.org.il

CIT-CORE069-CAESAREA-PILATE-CAMBRIDGE

Pontius Pilate and the Imperial Cult in Roman Judaea

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studies/article/abs/pontius-pilate-and-the-imperial-cult-in-roman-judaea/EE98624114D0CE312959BC7264677667

Cambridge University Press

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